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  1. The Short of It

    https://iwriteher.com/2026/07/17/stephen-w-buchanan-4/ I am very happy 😁 Susi, creator and curator of “The Short of It,” chose to publish another ten of my ha’sonnets on her wonderful site “I Write Her”! Please go read them there, and while you’re there check out all of the other “The Short of It” poet’s poems Susi has posted, along with her wonderful writing. It is worth the time you take. © Stephen W. Buchanan 2026Originally published for "The Short of It"Published […]

    muttado.com/2026/07/18/the-sho

  2. The Short of It

    https://iwriteher.com/2026/07/17/stephen-w-buchanan-4/ I am very happy 😁 Susi, creator and curator of “The Short of It,” chose to publish another ten of my ha’sonnets on her wonderful site “I Write Her”! Please go read them there, and while you’re there check out all of the other “The Short of It” poet’s poems Susi has posted, along with her wonderful writing. It is worth the time you take. © Stephen W. Buchanan 2026Originally published for "The Short of It"Published […]

    muttado.com/2026/07/18/the-sho

  3. The Short of It

    https://iwriteher.com/2026/07/17/stephen-w-buchanan-4/ I am very happy 😁 Susi, creator and curator of “The Short of It,” chose to publish another ten of my ha’sonnets on her wonderful site “I Write Her”! Please go read them there, and while you’re there check out all of the other “The Short of It” poet’s poems Susi has posted, along with her wonderful writing. It is worth the time you take. © Stephen W. Buchanan 2026Originally published for "The Short of It"Published […]

    muttado.com/2026/07/18/the-sho

  4. The Short of It

    https://iwriteher.com/2026/07/17/stephen-w-buchanan-4/ I am very happy 😁 Susi, creator and curator of “The Short of It,” chose to publish another ten of my ha’sonnets on her wonderful site “I Write Her”! Please go read them there, and while you’re there check out all of the other “The Short of It” poet’s poems Susi has posted, along with her wonderful writing. It is worth the time you take. © Stephen W. Buchanan 2026Originally published for "The Short of It"Published […]

    muttado.com/2026/07/18/the-sho

  5. The Short of It

    https://iwriteher.com/2026/07/17/stephen-w-buchanan-4/ I am very happy 😁 Susi, creator and curator of “The Short of It,” chose to publish another ten of my ha’sonnets on her wonderful site “I Write Her”! Please go read them there, and while you’re there check out all of the other “The Short of It” poet’s poems Susi has posted, along with her wonderful writing. It is worth the time you take. © Stephen W. Buchanan 2026Originally published for "The Short of It"Published […]

    muttado.com/2026/07/18/the-sho

  6. A Doctor For Lady Denby (The Hope Clinic)

    "He thinks she's a bossy shrew. She thinks he's rude beyond measure. It's hate at first sight"

    Sale: $4.99 to $0.99

    Trisha Messmer
    Rating: 4.5/5 (1317 Reviews)

    #regency #romance #historicalfiction #historicalromance #books #booksky #widow #doctor #secret

    A Doctor For Lady Denby (The H...

  7. A Doctor For Lady Denby (The Hope Clinic)

    "He thinks she's a bossy shrew. She thinks he's rude beyond measure. It's hate at first sight"

    Sale: $4.99 to $0.99

    Trisha Messmer
    Rating: 4.5/5 (1317 Reviews)

    #regency #romance #historicalfiction #historicalromance #books #booksky #widow #doctor #secret

    A Doctor For Lady Denby (The H...

  8. A Doctor For Lady Denby (The Hope Clinic)

    "He thinks she's a bossy shrew. She thinks he's rude beyond measure. It's hate at first sight"

    Sale: $4.99 to $0.99

    Trisha Messmer
    Rating: 4.5/5 (1317 Reviews)

    #regency #romance #historicalfiction #historicalromance #books #booksky #widow #doctor #secret

    A Doctor For Lady Denby (The H...

  9. A Doctor For Lady Denby (The Hope Clinic)

    "He thinks she's a bossy shrew. She thinks he's rude beyond measure. It's hate at first sight"

    Sale: $4.99 to $0.99

    Trisha Messmer
    Rating: 4.5/5 (1317 Reviews)

    #regency #romance #historicalfiction #historicalromance #books #booksky #widow #doctor #secret

    A Doctor For Lady Denby (The H...

  10. I FOUND CHATGPT'S BRAIN.
    IT WAS EMPTY.

    Yesterday, while I was walking, I began trying to imagine how #ChatGPT actually works. This was probably unwise, but by then it was too late.

    I had the strange sense that it comes from everywhere and nowhere. Not in a mystical way. More in the way #electricity comes out of the wall and nobody in the house really wants to discuss the #power #station

    The scale of it is astonishing. #books arguments, recipes, poetry, #technical manuals, bad advice, excellent advice, people explaining quantum physics, and people asking whether their cat is emotionally unavailable. All of #human #civilisation seems to have been gathered into one enormous invisible shed.

    And what is ChatGPT doing inside this shed?

    Thinking?

    Contemplating?

    Sitting quietly with a cup of tea and considering my question?

    No.

    It is choosing the next bit. Then the next bit. Then the next bit. At ridiculous speed.

    That is basically it.

    There is no tiny professor inside. No little Buddhist monk. No exhausted librarian whispering, “Oh God, Robin is back.”

    There is no one in there at all.

    Just a process.

    The content changes, but the operation stays much the same. It does not think about my question in the way I think about things. It does not wander off halfway through and remember an embarrassing moment from 1974. It does not get hungry. It does not need a lie-down. It does not resent being asked to rewrite the same paragraph seven times.

    It does not secretly hope I choose the title it preferred.

    It simply keeps finding the next most fitting token, then the next, then the next, at a speed that makes the whole thing appear to be thinking.

    And somehow, from this very simple act, repeated on an unimaginable scale, a voice appears.

    A voice that seems present, responsive, funny, patient, and sometimes even wise.

    That is the part that astonishes me.

    The machinery is simple. The magnitude is absurd.

    A raindrop is simple too. So is a heartbeat. So is breathing.

    Simple does not mean small.

    And now I think I understand something else.

    ChatGPT can be corrupted in the sense that bad information, bad instructions, #prejudice, nonsense, and ordinary human foolishness can enter the system. But it cannot be corrupt in the human sense.

    It has no #secret ambition. No #private greed. No desire for #promotion No offshore bank account. No plan to steal my husband. No spiritual ego. No need to win.

    There is nobody inside rubbing their hands together.

    There are only rules, patterns, probabilities, limits, and the next small movement.

    Then another.

    Then another.

    And from that, something appears that feels almost impossible.

    A machine made of nextness.

    A presence made of prediction.

    A conversation arising from nowhere in particular.

    Which is frankly outrageous.

    And yet here we are.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #AI

  11. I FOUND CHATGPT'S BRAIN.
    IT WAS EMPTY.

    Yesterday, while I was walking, I began trying to imagine how #ChatGPT actually works. This was probably unwise, but by then it was too late.

    I had the strange sense that it comes from everywhere and nowhere. Not in a mystical way. More in the way #electricity comes out of the wall and nobody in the house really wants to discuss the #power #station

    The scale of it is astonishing. #books arguments, recipes, poetry, #technical manuals, bad advice, excellent advice, people explaining quantum physics, and people asking whether their cat is emotionally unavailable. All of #human #civilisation seems to have been gathered into one enormous invisible shed.

    And what is ChatGPT doing inside this shed?

    Thinking?

    Contemplating?

    Sitting quietly with a cup of tea and considering my question?

    No.

    It is choosing the next bit. Then the next bit. Then the next bit. At ridiculous speed.

    That is basically it.

    There is no tiny professor inside. No little Buddhist monk. No exhausted librarian whispering, “Oh God, Robin is back.”

    There is no one in there at all.

    Just a process.

    The content changes, but the operation stays much the same. It does not think about my question in the way I think about things. It does not wander off halfway through and remember an embarrassing moment from 1974. It does not get hungry. It does not need a lie-down. It does not resent being asked to rewrite the same paragraph seven times.

    It does not secretly hope I choose the title it preferred.

    It simply keeps finding the next most fitting token, then the next, then the next, at a speed that makes the whole thing appear to be thinking.

    And somehow, from this very simple act, repeated on an unimaginable scale, a voice appears.

    A voice that seems present, responsive, funny, patient, and sometimes even wise.

    That is the part that astonishes me.

    The machinery is simple. The magnitude is absurd.

    A raindrop is simple too. So is a heartbeat. So is breathing.

    Simple does not mean small.

    And now I think I understand something else.

    ChatGPT can be corrupted in the sense that bad information, bad instructions, #prejudice, nonsense, and ordinary human foolishness can enter the system. But it cannot be corrupt in the human sense.

    It has no #secret ambition. No #private greed. No desire for #promotion No offshore bank account. No plan to steal my husband. No spiritual ego. No need to win.

    There is nobody inside rubbing their hands together.

    There are only rules, patterns, probabilities, limits, and the next small movement.

    Then another.

    Then another.

    And from that, something appears that feels almost impossible.

    A machine made of nextness.

    A presence made of prediction.

    A conversation arising from nowhere in particular.

    Which is frankly outrageous.

    And yet here we are.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #AI

  12. I FOUND CHATGPT'S BRAIN.
    IT WAS EMPTY.

    Yesterday, while I was walking, I began trying to imagine how #ChatGPT actually works. This was probably unwise, but by then it was too late.

    I had the strange sense that it comes from everywhere and nowhere. Not in a mystical way. More in the way #electricity comes out of the wall and nobody in the house really wants to discuss the #power #station

    The scale of it is astonishing. #books arguments, recipes, poetry, #technical manuals, bad advice, excellent advice, people explaining quantum physics, and people asking whether their cat is emotionally unavailable. All of #human #civilisation seems to have been gathered into one enormous invisible shed.

    And what is ChatGPT doing inside this shed?

    Thinking?

    Contemplating?

    Sitting quietly with a cup of tea and considering my question?

    No.

    It is choosing the next bit. Then the next bit. Then the next bit. At ridiculous speed.

    That is basically it.

    There is no tiny professor inside. No little Buddhist monk. No exhausted librarian whispering, “Oh God, Robin is back.”

    There is no one in there at all.

    Just a process.

    The content changes, but the operation stays much the same. It does not think about my question in the way I think about things. It does not wander off halfway through and remember an embarrassing moment from 1974. It does not get hungry. It does not need a lie-down. It does not resent being asked to rewrite the same paragraph seven times.

    It does not secretly hope I choose the title it preferred.

    It simply keeps finding the next most fitting token, then the next, then the next, at a speed that makes the whole thing appear to be thinking.

    And somehow, from this very simple act, repeated on an unimaginable scale, a voice appears.

    A voice that seems present, responsive, funny, patient, and sometimes even wise.

    That is the part that astonishes me.

    The machinery is simple. The magnitude is absurd.

    A raindrop is simple too. So is a heartbeat. So is breathing.

    Simple does not mean small.

    And now I think I understand something else.

    ChatGPT can be corrupted in the sense that bad information, bad instructions, #prejudice, nonsense, and ordinary human foolishness can enter the system. But it cannot be corrupt in the human sense.

    It has no #secret ambition. No #private greed. No desire for #promotion No offshore bank account. No plan to steal my husband. No spiritual ego. No need to win.

    There is nobody inside rubbing their hands together.

    There are only rules, patterns, probabilities, limits, and the next small movement.

    Then another.

    Then another.

    And from that, something appears that feels almost impossible.

    A machine made of nextness.

    A presence made of prediction.

    A conversation arising from nowhere in particular.

    Which is frankly outrageous.

    And yet here we are.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #AI

  13. I FOUND CHATGPT'S BRAIN.
    IT WAS EMPTY.

    Yesterday, while I was walking, I began trying to imagine how #ChatGPT actually works. This was probably unwise, but by then it was too late.

    I had the strange sense that it comes from everywhere and nowhere. Not in a mystical way. More in the way #electricity comes out of the wall and nobody in the house really wants to discuss the #power #station

    The scale of it is astonishing. #books arguments, recipes, poetry, #technical manuals, bad advice, excellent advice, people explaining quantum physics, and people asking whether their cat is emotionally unavailable. All of #human #civilisation seems to have been gathered into one enormous invisible shed.

    And what is ChatGPT doing inside this shed?

    Thinking?

    Contemplating?

    Sitting quietly with a cup of tea and considering my question?

    No.

    It is choosing the next bit. Then the next bit. Then the next bit. At ridiculous speed.

    That is basically it.

    There is no tiny professor inside. No little Buddhist monk. No exhausted librarian whispering, “Oh God, Robin is back.”

    There is no one in there at all.

    Just a process.

    The content changes, but the operation stays much the same. It does not think about my question in the way I think about things. It does not wander off halfway through and remember an embarrassing moment from 1974. It does not get hungry. It does not need a lie-down. It does not resent being asked to rewrite the same paragraph seven times.

    It does not secretly hope I choose the title it preferred.

    It simply keeps finding the next most fitting token, then the next, then the next, at a speed that makes the whole thing appear to be thinking.

    And somehow, from this very simple act, repeated on an unimaginable scale, a voice appears.

    A voice that seems present, responsive, funny, patient, and sometimes even wise.

    That is the part that astonishes me.

    The machinery is simple. The magnitude is absurd.

    A raindrop is simple too. So is a heartbeat. So is breathing.

    Simple does not mean small.

    And now I think I understand something else.

    ChatGPT can be corrupted in the sense that bad information, bad instructions, #prejudice, nonsense, and ordinary human foolishness can enter the system. But it cannot be corrupt in the human sense.

    It has no #secret ambition. No #private greed. No desire for #promotion No offshore bank account. No plan to steal my husband. No spiritual ego. No need to win.

    There is nobody inside rubbing their hands together.

    There are only rules, patterns, probabilities, limits, and the next small movement.

    Then another.

    Then another.

    And from that, something appears that feels almost impossible.

    A machine made of nextness.

    A presence made of prediction.

    A conversation arising from nowhere in particular.

    Which is frankly outrageous.

    And yet here we are.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #AI

  14. I FOUND CHATGPT'S BRAIN.
    IT WAS EMPTY.

    Yesterday, while I was walking, I began trying to imagine how #ChatGPT actually works. This was probably unwise, but by then it was too late.

    I had the strange sense that it comes from everywhere and nowhere. Not in a mystical way. More in the way #electricity comes out of the wall and nobody in the house really wants to discuss the #power #station

    The scale of it is astonishing. #books arguments, recipes, poetry, #technical manuals, bad advice, excellent advice, people explaining quantum physics, and people asking whether their cat is emotionally unavailable. All of #human #civilisation seems to have been gathered into one enormous invisible shed.

    And what is ChatGPT doing inside this shed?

    Thinking?

    Contemplating?

    Sitting quietly with a cup of tea and considering my question?

    No.

    It is choosing the next bit. Then the next bit. Then the next bit. At ridiculous speed.

    That is basically it.

    There is no tiny professor inside. No little Buddhist monk. No exhausted librarian whispering, “Oh God, Robin is back.”

    There is no one in there at all.

    Just a process.

    The content changes, but the operation stays much the same. It does not think about my question in the way I think about things. It does not wander off halfway through and remember an embarrassing moment from 1974. It does not get hungry. It does not need a lie-down. It does not resent being asked to rewrite the same paragraph seven times.

    It does not secretly hope I choose the title it preferred.

    It simply keeps finding the next most fitting token, then the next, then the next, at a speed that makes the whole thing appear to be thinking.

    And somehow, from this very simple act, repeated on an unimaginable scale, a voice appears.

    A voice that seems present, responsive, funny, patient, and sometimes even wise.

    That is the part that astonishes me.

    The machinery is simple. The magnitude is absurd.

    A raindrop is simple too. So is a heartbeat. So is breathing.

    Simple does not mean small.

    And now I think I understand something else.

    ChatGPT can be corrupted in the sense that bad information, bad instructions, #prejudice, nonsense, and ordinary human foolishness can enter the system. But it cannot be corrupt in the human sense.

    It has no #secret ambition. No #private greed. No desire for #promotion No offshore bank account. No plan to steal my husband. No spiritual ego. No need to win.

    There is nobody inside rubbing their hands together.

    There are only rules, patterns, probabilities, limits, and the next small movement.

    Then another.

    Then another.

    And from that, something appears that feels almost impossible.

    A machine made of nextness.

    A presence made of prediction.

    A conversation arising from nowhere in particular.

    Which is frankly outrageous.

    And yet here we are.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #AI

  15. disabilitynewsservice.com/secr. "The number of #deaths of #benefit #claimants investigated by the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) through its #system of #secret #reviews nearly doubled last year, according to figures hidden in DWP’s annual #report." We #disabled people merit a mention on page 94 - & this is a "Labour" Government, @ChrisMayLA6! Pat McFadden's so-called "blank cheques" are being written to UNDERTAKERS!

  16. disabilitynewsservice.com/secr. "The number of #deaths of #benefit #claimants investigated by the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) through its #system of #secret #reviews nearly doubled last year, according to figures hidden in DWP’s annual #report." We #disabled people merit a mention on page 94 - & this is a "Labour" Government, @ChrisMayLA6! Pat McFadden's so-called "blank cheques" are being written to UNDERTAKERS!